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Claymore. A sword almost a metre and a half long, with a handle covered in leather and wrapped decoratively with cord in a series of X shapes, a large round pommel and a simple cross guard with loops extending perpendicular to the handle.
Two-handed sword, grip is wood covered with cloth and knotted with string in a diamond pattern. Has been cut short to 'Highland length'. Guard shape: ring-like. Quillons: scroll-shaped. Is reputed to be the Tolquhon Sword through its association…
Claymore. A sword almost a metre and a half long, with a squarish handle covered in leather decorated with bands of horizontal lines, a ridged cylindrical pommel, a cross guard terminating in diamond shaped loops at each end, and large oval shaped guards on both sides of the handle.
Two-handed sword. Guard type: double shell. Quillon shape: pierced diamonds. The grip is wood, covered with leather which is tooled transversely in about 11 groups of 4 lines.
Inscription: [has the mark of a Solingen smith]
Inscription: [has the mark of a Solingen smith]
Clock movement. A small brass contraption consisting of wheels, cogs, plates, and a spring.
Spring clock and movement for demonstrating the reduction of sound in vacuum; pounds 6.6.0. Brass. Some form of 'scale' behind escapement wheel, part of an old compass dial, although no pointer evident. Fancy key, handle heart-shaped and engraved on…
Clock. A large clock with a white clockface with black roman numerals, brass hands and the inscription Heming London. The clock has a dark wooden body, painted onto which is a coat of arms and the inscription Mitchell's Hospital, Old Aberdeen MDCCCIII.
Decoration on wooden case: coat of arms (of Mitchell of Craigend). Clock has an enamel face and brass rim, made by Heming of London.
Inscription: MITCHELLS HOSPITAL OLD ABERDEEN MDCCC111
Inscription: MITCHELLS HOSPITAL OLD ABERDEEN MDCCC111
cloth beads sample
Glass test-tube, stoppered with cork, containing sample of beads still strung together, mounted on a card label: 'Cloth of Beads from Mummy'. Inscription: Cloth of Beads from Mummy
club
Carved wooden club from Hawaii. Thomson's MS Catalogue: 'Carved club - very heavy - from Owhyee (Hawaji). Mr Walker S Davidson'.
club
One of five clubs listed in Reid, 1912. Circular disc-like end. James Edward Keith (1696 -1758), Younger brother of the last Earl Marischal of Scotland. Exiled for taking up arms against the Hanovarians in the 1715 uprising, he fled to the Continent,…